The Long Voyage Home: Amazon.ca: John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter, Ward Bond, Barry Fitzgerald, Wilfrid Lawson, John Qualen, Mildred Natwick, Arthur Shields, Joe Sawyer, J.M. Kerrigan, Rafaela Ottiano, Gregg Toland, John Ford, Sherman Todd, Walter Wanger, Dudley Nichols, Eugene O'Neill: DVD

Product Details

Actors: John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter, Ward Bond, Barry Fitzgerald
Directors: John Ford
Writers: Dudley Nichols, Eugene O'Neill
Producers: John Ford, Walter Wanger
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Language: English, Spanish
Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
Region: Region 1 (US and Canada This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
MPAA Rating:
Studio: Warner
Release Date: Jun 6 2006
Run Time: 105 minutes

Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)

ASIN: B000F0UUIC
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #24,643 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
- #2 in DVD > Special Interests > Outdoor Recreation > Boating & Sailing > Sailing
- #7 in DVD > Classics > Classic Stars > John Wayne > 1940s
- #9 in DVD > Special Interests > Outdoor Recreation > Boating & Sailing > Boating

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5.0 out of 5 stars Long Voyage Home a True Gem Jun 16 2006

By Cap

Format:DVD

John Ford's "A Long Voyage Home" is one of those films that stick with you your whole life like "Meet John Doe" or "Of Mice and Men". I last saw it almost 30 years ago and it haunts me still.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Voyage May 5 2004

By A Customer

Format:VHS Tape

Wonderful work by John Ford and his team, who stitched together some Eugene O'Neill playlets about the merchant marine into the only film of his own work the writer could stand to watch. The real star here is Thomas Mitchell, the Duke is just a supporting player, and Mitchell gives the best performance of his great career. The moment in which Mitchell realizes that he is delving into a fellow shipmate's sad private life under the mistaken impression that the man is a spy has rarely been equalled in the American movies for emotional power. The film doesn't get mentioned enough in the litany of Ford's great movies but he never surpassed it, in my view.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Haunting Musical Score Mar 10 2003

By Melvyn R. Windham

Format:VHS Tape

If this is the movie I think it is (in how many movies did Johh Wayne have a Swedish accent?), it wasn't but a few years ago when I got a chance to see it from beginning to end as an adult.

When I think of this movie, there is one scene that stands out from all the rest; and it is the haunting musical score that caused this. The scene, as I said, is quite simple. We see nothing but the ship itself leaving a dock in the harbor at night. And then the music - "Those Harbor Lights" - begins in what strikes me as a bitter-sweet tone - building gradually during its short duration in such a fashion that it left me feeling almost empty, desperate, hopeless, helpless - for want of better adjectives. I had heard that tune many times over the years - but never as so hauntingly and piercingly as it was performed in that movie - and without words, too! It turned out to be one of those tunes that - once it entered my head - would bounce around and around - taking me days to finally purge it from my system.

Not too many movie scenes have affected me this way.

I highly recommend this movie for this scene alone. To me it is a different type of John Ford movie, but with top-notch acting, including Thomas Mitchell, Barry Fitzgerald, Barry's brother Arthur Shields, and John Wayne (and with a Swedish accent in the bargain!). A real joy to watch.

Enjoy!

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